Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Palau and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Archie Shepp to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dirtbombs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Vainqueur,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
UT,
Main Source,
Robert Wyatt,
The Grass Roots,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gang of Four,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Y Pants,
Jerry's Kids,
Funky Four + One,
The Blues Magoos,
Patti Smith,
Khruangbin,
Ossler,
Ice-T,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Standells,
Eden Ahbez,
DJ Style,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Kinks,
Scientists,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ponytail,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Von Mondo,
Susan Cadogan,
The Durutti Column,
James White and The Blacks,
Kurtis Blow,
Tommy Roe,
Tubeway Army,
Scott Walker,
Danielle Patucci,
Andrew Hill,
The Moleskins,
Ten City,
Matthew Halsall,
Bootsy Collins,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Monochrome Set,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Radiopuhelimet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pylon,
The Motions,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rosa Yemen,
Erasure,
The Cramps,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Selecter,
The Vogues,
Pagans,
The Gap Band,
Peter and Kerry,
Heaven 17,
Graham Central Station,
The Young Rascals,
The Happenings,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.